Musataha
A musataha is a registered right to build on and use land belonging to someone else for a long fixed term, after which the land and usually the buildings revert.
It is a development right rather than a home-buying one, used where a party wants to construct and operate on land they do not own.
Residential buyers rarely encounter it. It matters when assessing who controls a plot behind or beside a project.
Dubai Diligence is an independent property-data service built on official Dubai Land Department records. We are not a brokerage and no developer pays us. This is general information, not legal, financial or tax advice.
